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Electronic Distribution of Technical Information via Satellite (EDTIS) Improved Access to Technical Information

• Charles Satterthwaite: AFRL/IFTA
• Steve Tomashefsky: Raytheon

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The following is a list of several advantages of an EDTIS system:

• Eliminate distribution of paper Technical Orders and associated configuration

management costs

• Eliminate distribution delays
• Assuring availability of the most current technical data
• Eliminate lost TOs and change pages
• Enable rapid deployment of Aircraft support infrastructure
• Eliminate hundreds of pounds (conservative figure) of paper
• Increase aircraft payload
• Reduced Mean Time To Repair via improved data accuracy
• Increase combat capability by reducing aircraft down time
• Decrease repair cycle costs by reducing false LRU pulls
• Reduce spares requirement by reducing false pulls
• Reduced manpower skill level requirements via “smart” IETMs
• New capabilities possible – maintenance history, fault diagnosis, automated

parts ordering, etc.

• Commercial Satellite redundancy reduces resource dependence vulnerability
• On-line Expert assistance feasible to enhance 2-level maintenance policy

The best summary of this paper is to contrast the above list with common situations that weapon system maintainers face:

• Dependency on distribution of paper Technical Orders from multiple sources

with non-standard configuration management of each source

• Frequent distribution delays
• Non-availability of the most current technical data
• Lost TOs and change pages, hard copies deteriorate after repeated usage
• Delayed deployment of Aircraft support infrastructure
• Required to handle and move hundreds of pounds (conservative figure) of

paper

• Decreased aircraft payload
• Mean Time To Repair increased
• Decreased combat capability due to increased aircraft down time
• Increased repair cycle costs because of increased false LRU pulls
• More spares requirement because increased false pulls
• Higher manpower skill level requirements because of untimely technical data
• Reduced access to new capabilities, because of the non-standard distribution
• f technical data
• Inherent resource dependence vulnerability
• On-line Expert assistance difficult to enhance